women make joint and sequential decisions about school attendance, work, marriage, fertility and welfare participation. We … observed minority-majority differences in behavior can be attributed to differences in labor market opportunities, marriage …

labor force participation or has any impact on local marriage and fertility patterns. While our results are consistent with …

This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how … bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of paying higher dowry increases …

Three important interconnected spheres shape women’s lives in Tunisia: marriage, fertility and agency over their lives … and how these choices and patterns have evolved over time. Specifically, the paper examines marriage decisions, such as … whether and at what age women marry and what living arrangements they adopt at marriage. We also investigate the crucial …

This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how … bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of paying higher dowry increases …